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Subject: gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't save/copy screenshots
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 02:48:18 -0700
Package: gnome-screenshot
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: important
Hi,
gnome-screenshot flashes the screen and makes the shutter noise, but it no
longer opens the "Save Screenshot" window, so I can't use it to actually take
screenshots anymore. This message appears in the terminal:
** (gnome-screenshot:7018): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin
screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)
I'm using gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-2 in wheezy. Downgrading gnome-screenshot to
3.2.1-3 fixes the bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-screenshot depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.10.0-3
ii libc6 2.13-32
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4
ii libcanberra0 0.28-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.0-4
ii libgtk-3-0 3.2.3-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
gnome-screenshot recommends no packages.
gnome-screenshot suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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forwarded 671831 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669629
thanks
On 07.05.2012 11:48, Brian Marshall wrote:
> Package: gnome-screenshot
> Version: 3.4.1-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> gnome-screenshot flashes the screen and makes the shutter noise, but it no
> longer opens the "Save Screenshot" window, so I can't use it to actually take
> screenshots anymore. This message appears in the terminal:
>
> ** (gnome-screenshot:7018): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin
> screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
> for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)
>
> I'm using gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-2 in wheezy. Downgrading gnome-screenshot to
> 3.2.1-3 fixes the bug.
Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.
Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.
Cheers,
Michael
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(Mon, 07 May 2012 21:54:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: Bug#671831: gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't
save/copy screenshots
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:52:19 -0700
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote:
> forwarded 671831 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669629
> thanks
>
> On 07.05.2012 11:48, Brian Marshall wrote:
>> Package: gnome-screenshot
>> Version: 3.4.1-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> gnome-screenshot flashes the screen and makes the shutter noise, but it no
>> longer opens the "Save Screenshot" window, so I can't use it to actually take
>> screenshots anymore. This message appears in the terminal:
>>
>> ** (gnome-screenshot:7018): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin
>> screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Error: Expected type utf8
>> for Argument 'filename' but got type 'boolean' (nil)
>>
>> I'm using gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-2 in wheezy. Downgrading gnome-screenshot to
>> 3.2.1-3 fixes the bug.
>
> Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
> upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
> saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.
>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. I'm not sure how long it would've
taken me to notice the dozen screenshots I unknowingly saved.
I'll leave this to GNOME since it's an intentional upstream change,
then. Thanks for your time.
-- Brian
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Subject: Re: Bug#671831: gnome-screenshot: main window never appears; can't
save/copy screenshots
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:26:21 +0200
Hello,
I have almost the same bug here: press the screenshot keyboard button,
screen flashes, shutter noise, but no screenshot is saved.
BUT, I'm using Gnome in _Classic_ mode, NOT Gnome Shell default interface.
If I type "gnome-screenshot" from terminal, my error message is slightly
different:
----------------
** (gnome-screenshot:6160): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's
builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.Shell was not provided by any .service files
----------------
Creating a ~/Pictures folder did not fix it. I searched my whole home
directory for recently modified files, but found no screenshot image.
The only alternative I found is using "gnome-screenshot --interactive"
but it is pretty cumbersome.
EDIT: apparently, using dconf-editor, then going to org > gnome >
gnome-screenshot, then editing the attribute "auto-save-directory" to
"file:///tmp" fixes the problem. Still a bug though as this attribute
was empty by default.
I'm on an up-to-date Wheezy:
- gnome-screenshot 3.4.1-1
- gnome-shell 3.4.2-7+deb7u1
Thanks,
Fabien C.
On Mon, 07 May 2012 21:03:56 +0200 Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a "feature", i.e. a change made by
> upstream. gnome-screenshot no longer shows the save dialog, but simply
> saves the screenhot in ~/Pictures.
>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of this particular upstream change.
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